New Releases by Joshua Dysart

Remember the ?90s?! The most elite assets of Project Rising Spirit team up for an early mission together ? Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps, living weapons! But, in the decade of dial-up, the technology is far from perfect and bugs are bound to pop up in the wetware?with disastrous results?

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From Bestselling author Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this stunning graphic novel adaptation of the New York Times Bestselling novel about a young prince who abandons his inheritance to discover his true calling. His iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe today. A young man in line for the throne is trapped in his father''s kingdom and yearns for the outside world. Betrayed by those closest to him, Siddhartha abandons his palace and princely title. Alone and face-to-face with his demons, he becomes a wandering monk and embarks on a spiritual fast that carries him to the brink of death. Ultimately recognizing his inability to conquer his body and mind by sheer will, Siddhartha transcends his physical pain and achieves enlightenment. Although we recognize Buddha today as an icon of peace and serenity, his life story was a tumultuous and spellbinding affair filled with love and sex, murder and loss, struggle and surrender. From the rocky terrain of the material world to the summit of the spiritual one, Buddha captivates and inspires - ultimately leading us closer to understanding the true nature of life and our selves.

Post-corporate warfare just got a whole lot deadlier. Trapped in an enemy stronghold, Bloodshot has been broken ? dismantled piece-by-piece, nanite-by-nanite by the Harbinger Foundation?s most disturbed minds! But when Bloodshot?s signal goes dark, who can the black ops military contractor known as Rising Spirit bring in to recover its most expensive soldier? Time to call in?H.A.R.D. Corps!

Before the Harbinger Foundation, before Project Rising Spirit, Toyo Harada spent decades circling the globe, recruiting empowered individuals to his cause through coercion, intimidation and influence. But how is one deal brokered in secret between Harada and Rising Sprit Securities forty years ago now wreaking havoc in the modern day? And when the past comes roaring back, how will Peter Stanchek and the rest of Harada?s most wanted react to the revelation of Rising Spirit?s secret mission and the Harbinger hunter known as Bloodshot? Collecting HARBINGER #11-14 and HARBINGER #0, join New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Carbon Grey), Trevor Hairsine (X-Men: Deadly Genesis), Mico Suayan (The Punisher), and Pere Perez (Smallville Season 11) for a complete standalone tale of the dark foundations behind Valiant?s first crossover event. ?Things are coming to a natural boiling point? Man oh man, awesome stuff.? ? IGN ?The perfect balance of emotion and action on many levels. Stunning!? ? Cosmic Book News

It turns out that nightmares are just dreams too. Heading west, the Renegades have found themselves at the end of Route 66 in a little town called Los Angeles, California. But the war they left behind is still waging, somehow, unseen just below the surface of the sun and surf. What if it will never end? What if there is no escape? What if wherever they go, they carry the war inside them? It has long been said that the City of Angels is a place where anything can happen? where reality is pliable and dreams are made real in the blink of an eye. Now, like the decades of wannabe starlets and rockers before them, the Renegades are about to find out that having your dreams come true is severely overrated.

HARBINGER WARS AFTERMATH! ALL-NEW ARC, ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! In the wake of Harbinger Wars, start reading here as Joshua Dysart and new series artist Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man, FF) begin the next year of Harbinger with a mind-bending trip to the outer limits of the Valiant Universe! It?s been a brutal few months for Peter Stanchek and the Renegades, culminating in the harrowing events ? and losses ? of the Harbinger Wars. But now the members of the team have woken up to the Best. Day. Ever. As Lou Reed sang, it?s just a perfect day, problems left all alone. But for Peter Stanchek ? a kid who deserves a good day ? something seems off?like all is not what it seems?

Choosing sides is never easy ? especially when the decision could get you killed. As the Harbinger Wars reach their boiling point, Peter and his team must decide what role to play as the lines between friend and foe blur and the casualties pile high all around them. But just when all seems lost, a new ally will emerge from the unlikeliest of places ? and Peter Stanchek?s ragtag band of teenage psiots will add a new hero to their ranks. Who will join the Harbinger Renegades?!

HARBINGER WARS tie-in! The Renegades vs. Bloodshot! At last, the battle you?ve been waiting for! But the Harbinger hunter called Bloodshot is a much more dangerous ? and much more clever ? foe than Peter Stanchek and the Renegades ever could have anticipated. Plus: what is the secret of Toyo Harada?s first Harbinger War?

The HARBINGER WARS heat up Las Vegas! After decades of secret conflict, Toyo Harada has managed in one fell swoop to cripple Project Rising Spirit through the masterful manipulation of key players in the Valiant Universe. Now he wants the psiot children Bloodshot rescued from the bowels of a nightmarish PRS facility. Too bad. This rogue band of super-powered escapees have begun to call themselves GENERATION ZERO and they?ve declared a war of their own. First strike: Vegas, baby! And while PRS fashions a radical plan for getting the kids back, Peter Stanchek and the Renegades are following visions right into the heart of the Harbinger Wars.

The Great Conjunction is at hand in this dramatic second volume of Archaia and The Jim Henson Company''s trilogy of prequel graphic novels that tell the origin of the Dark Crystal. Aughra, the beloved guardian of Thra, has gone into hiding, while her son, Raunip, leads a team of emissaries to the Crystal Castle. There they will bear witness as the visiting Urskeks attempt to use the Conjunction to power their voyage home. But pain and mistrust fostered by the group leads to events that will corrupt the world to its very core and transform the Urskeks into two distinct races: the gentle urRu and the terrifying Skeksis. Brian Froud returns to oversee this crucial chapter that reveals the tragic events that caused the Bright Crystal to darken and shatter.

?Your system has failed us. Now we must build our own.? All-new arc, all-new jumping-on point! HARBINGER WARS continues in a standalone, four-part arc of HARBINGER, featuring the return of original series artist Khari Evans (Carbon Grey)! ? The world has just become a much bigger, much more dangerous place for Peter Stanchek and the Renegades... ? How will they react to the revelation of Project Rising Spirit?s secret mission and the harbinger hunter known as Bloodshot?

?Do you know where the children are?? HARBINGER WARS, Valiant?s first family crossover event, begins here! A decades-old secret is about to put BLOODSHOT and HARBINGER on an inescapable collision course ? and, soon, the most powerful forces in the Valiant Universe will be drawn into a battle without sides, without rules, and without mercy. ?Two dozen undisciplined, untested and untrained superhuman children have just escaped from a top-secret research facility and into the world. ?When Bloodshot, Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek join the chase, will the Valiant Universe be ready for its first all-out superhuman showdown? ?Start reading here for a high-stakes tale that will put Valiant?s greatest heroes to the ultimate test!

Lead or die. Peter Stanchek is about to face his toughest test yet. Trapped between the opposing forces of Toyo Harada?s Eggbreakers and Project Rising Spirit, Peter Stanchek and his wayward band of renegade telekinetics are about to find themselves in a vicious, three-way firefight. Can they put aside their fears and do battle as the team they?ll need to be to survive? The Renegades are about to make their big debut ? and, when the smoke clears, the Valiant Universe is going to be a very different place.

A better future. Or no future at all. Super-powered teenager Peter Stanchek is on a dangerous path. Skipping across the country in a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, Peter is quickly realizing that he?s a psionically-charged ?harbinger? with the potential to reshape the course of human history. But Peter?s plight has not gone unnoticed. Respected philanthropist and fellow harbinger Toyo Harada is about to offer Peter the chance at the things for which the boy has always longed ? family, inner peace, self-control ? and induct him into the sprawling, secret network of conspiracy and subversion known as the Harbinger Foundation. Now Peter begins his long road towards a destiny that will shake the very foundations of the Valiant Universe. His first lesson? All power comes with a price. Collecting the first five issues of the critically acclaimed series by New York Times best-selling author Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier), acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Carbon Grey) and Lewis Larosa (PunisherMAX), this is the perfect place to catch up with the series that Comic Book Resources calls ?superheroes at its best?.

Charlene Dupre feels like she?s been on fire since the day she was born. Too hot to handle, abused and misused, she?s turned to a dead-end life on the sleazy side of the New Orleans streets. But when Peter and his strange band of teenagers with wondrous powers walk into the strip club where she works, Charlene discovers the heat that?s been burning her up inside is the only thing that can set her free. Meanwhile, Project Rising Spirit closes in on Peter Stanchek, the most dangerous boy in the world. Vengeance, acceptance and fire. Meet the next member of the Harbinger Resistance as ?Renegades? begins a brand new chapter!

Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek. Master and apprentice. Creator and destroyer. Alpha and omega. Humanity?s most powerful psionic, Pete Stanchek, has been run to ground. His few friends and family are gone. He is loved is by no one. At the nadir of his brief, 18-year existence, he has been drugged, deceived and deluded by a corporate master. But now he?s finally had enough. Tonight, the human race will find out exactly how powerful he is. Tonight, the boy who has nothing will go to war against the man who has everything. And soon the Valiant Universe will discover that anything can end ? even the world.

As the rest of the team hunts for their missing man, a lone agent follows his mysterious benefactor further into the dark recesses of her world. Joshua Dysart (_B.P.R.D.: 1946_) and _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola team up with sequential heartthrobs Gabriel B�� (_The Umbrella Academy_) and F��bio Moon (_Sugarshock_) for a new chapter in the hidden history of the B.P.R.D.! A direct sequel to the critically acclaimed _B.P.R.D.: 1946_! Art by Eisner Award-winning rising stars F��bio Moon and Gabriel B��!

With lots of casualties on both sides, the battle with the vampires is over. Now Broom has to enlist an old friend in a bizarre exorcism to save the soul of one of the soldiers. But the exorcist himself isn''t happy about the little demon Broom has adopted and has a lesson to teach Broom about battling the forces of darkness.

In 1946, the Nazi Occult Bureau''s Project Vampir Sturm threatened to destroy the fragile peace following the end of the Second World War. A year later, the B.P.R.D. learns that there are creatures far olderand far more dangerousthan the Nazis'' creations, as a lone vampire nobleman ruthlessly hunts the survivors of the Third Reich. Joshua Dysart (_B.P.R.D.: 1946_) and _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola team up with Gabriel B�� (_The Umbrella Academy_) and F��bio Moon (_Sugarshock_) for a new chapter in the hidden history of the B.P.R.D.! A direct sequel to the critically acclaimed _B.P.R.D.: 1946_! Art by Eisner Award winners F��bio Moon and Gabriel B��! **A chilling old-world vampire tale!**

A graphic novel adaptation of the life of the Buddha, written for western readers, traces his spiritual journey while explaining how his experiences and teachings have changed the world and continue to influence every facet of life.

"Healing the Breach" Part 2 of 4. While Swamp Thing battles a strange bio-tech invader in the Green, Professor Schiller gives up his conscious mind and commits to reliving the final days of his relationship with Alec Holland''s first wife, Linda. Out in the Gulf of Mexico, a strange uncurling beast living at the bottom of the polluted "Dead Zone" begins to rise. The Louisiana storm season has begun.